But it crashes, saying DEFAULT and DEFAULT are not defined. I've tried variations, including USER(), USER, DATE, etc, but they always come back as "not defined". And if I just leave the fields out of my VALUES statement, I receive the error message that my column name list longer than value list. I'm trying to default the current user and date. I've tried every variation I cna think of, including trying to "hardcode" "USER" instead of :DEFAULT, for example, with no luck.